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Michael Goold is a founding director of the Ashridge Strategic
Management Centre. His research and consulting interests and expertise
are concerned with corporate strategy and structure, especially
in multi-business companies. He has worked with a wide range of
companies in developing the distinctive views on corporate parenting
for which Ashridge is now known. His publications include Designing
Effective Organizations: How to Create Structured Networks (Jossey
Bass, 2002), Synergy: Why Links between Business Units Often Fail
and How to Make Them Work (Capstone, 1998), Corporate-Level Strategy:
Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company (John Wiley & Sons,
1994) Strategic Control: Milestones for Long-Term Performance (Financial
Times/Pitman, 1990), and Strategies and Styles: The Role of the
Centre in Managing Diversified Corporations (Blackwell, 1987). Michael
also runs the Centre's programme on Group Level Strategy.
Prior to establishing the Centre in 1987, he was a Senior Fellow
at the London Business School. During this time, he undertook the
research into the role of the corporate centre in diversified companies
that led to the publication of Strategies and Styles. He also taught
business policy on the Master's programme and on executive courses.
Michael has extensive consulting experience with senior management.
From 1971 to 1983 he was a member of the Boston Consulting Group,
and in 1978 was elected a Vice President and Director of the firm.
He continues to consult with UK and international clients from a
variety of industry sectors in addition to his research and teaching
responsibilities. Recently, he has extended his work with public
sector and not-for-profit organisations.
Michael holds an MA with First Class Honours in PPE and a B.Phil.
in Philosophy from Merton College, Oxford, and an MBA with Distinction
from the Stanford Business School, California.
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